ASYMPTOTICALLY FLAT SPACE-TIMES HAVE NO CONFORMAL KILLING FIELDS

Jul 14, 1986
19 pages
Published in:
  • J.Math.Phys. 28 (1987) 28
Report number:
  • Print-86-0937 (WASH.U.,ST.LOUIS)

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Abstract: (AIP)
It is shown that asymptotically flat space‐times with certain properties do not admit conformal Killing fields which are not Killing fields. The space‐times must be vacuum, asymptotically Minkowskian, and have positive Bondi energy.